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“The question isn't whether magic is real. It's whether I can touch it without being consumed by it.”
― Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

“Anger is a funny thing. And it does funny things to us if we keep it inside. I encourage you to consider a question: Who benefits, my dear, when you forst yourself to not feel angry?" She tilted her head and looked at me so hard I thought she could see right into my bones. She raised her eyebrows. "Clearly not you.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“The beautiful thing about science is that we do not know what we cannot know and we will not know until we know. It requires an incredible amount of humility to be willing to be wrong nearly all the time. But we have to be willing to be wrong, and proven wrong, in order to increase knowledge overall. It is a thankless, and essential, job. Thank goodness.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“However tired I am, however hard it is: I know I can keep going, because I’m alive.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“If you want a fate other than what Heaven gave you, you have to want that other fate. You have to struggle for it. Suffer for it.”
― Shelley Parker-Chan, She Who Became the Sun

“Wir haben keine Zeit mehr. Wir müssen jetzt alles ändern. Morgen ist es zu spät.”
― Theresa Hannig, Pantopia

“But bitch felt like a harsh word to apply to a girl who was fighting so hard to make space for herself in a world that didn’t want her.”
― Victoria Lee, A Lesson in Vengeance

“Men, after all, delight in nothing so much as to recast themselves in the center of the story.”
― Kelly Barnhill, When Women Were Dragons

“I think there are lives that make it easy to be good. Or what most people call good. When you have wealth, status, family, it's easy to be a saint, it costs you nothing.”
― Margaret Owen, Muerte y fortuna